i just can't tell you how much i love him. >> in washington, brett baier, fox news. kennedy: oh god bless her and god rest her soul. joining me on the phone, presidential his storyian doug wead. obviously first ladies have a tremendous impact on the country but can be very polarizing. not so barbara bush. she was incredibly recognizable but had a great calming influence on the country. how would you put her as far as you categorize first ladies, where does she stand? >> well, she, by any standard, she's one of the most introot women who's ever lived, either that or she's one of the luckiest because all around her people succeeded historians like to point to the fact that she's the only woman other than abigail adams to have been both the wife and mother to the american president but there's a big difference. abigail adams never knew it. she died in 1818 having buried three of her children, including one young man who died early as an alcoholic. but barbara bush not only saw one-her sons become president, she saw two others elected governor. that had never happened be

>> well, i mean, let's talk about last night's interview with brett baier. james comey.now where that information came from. i never asked. who doesn't ask. he's the head of the fbi e doesn't ask for information? where is this evidence, what am i relying on? come on now. the whole thing has gotten out of hand and i think now we need to move forward as a country. we need to support the president that we have. he's making strides. look at north and south korea. look at our unemployment numbers. there are positive things. why don't we focus on those things. david: and i think the brett baier interview was the perfect book end to that book tour of james comey because it exposed some of the extraordinary inconsistencies in what he says and what he's done. >> sometimes you have to give these folk the opportunity to hang themselves and that's whactlexactly what occurred. in addition to saying he didn't really care you know what political party has paid for it, he was just concerned. and it seemed to be tint lated by the fact that they were anti-trump, happened to be an r&d didn

you know, he told brett baier, that's not a leaker.e the memo to my friend with the intent to hand it over to the new york times it sounds like a leak to me senator. >> well he gave it to two other individuals one a former special counsel mr. fitzgerald but here is what's important. comey said he did this for the impress reason of hoping special counsel would be appointed so he made a decision, james comey did , to try to press the system to appoint a special counsel. that doesn't show a motivation and bias against president trump i don't know what would, but here is the real issue for me. loretta lynch versus comey. comey says that loretta lynch told him don't call the clinton e-mail investigation an investigation call it a matter. she denies that. comey says there's classified information that if ever got to be revealed would destroy loretta lynch's credibility when it came to the clinton e-mail investigation. these two people need to be brought to congress, put under oath, and resolved this conflict james comey, i don't trust him. i

. >> what about this past sunday, brett baier was playing golf with donald trump, where's the line?someone said you're playing golf with donald trump, that would be a serious problem. at fox everything that they're doing with trump looks like it's state tv now. we're just putting out his point of view, we're supporting whatever he does. and he doesn't have any rules generally speaking so they don't have any rules either. >> state tv, reminds me of what we heard from ted koppel. we'll play that for you next hour. thank you very much. coming up, did ambassador nikki haley get ahead of the curve when she announced new sanctions on russia? a top white house aide just said she did. iit was the last song of theh my brnight. it felt like my heart was skipping beats. i went to the er. they said i had afib. afib? what's afib? i knew that meant i was at a greater risk of stroke. i needed answers. once i got the facts, my doctor and i chose xarelto®. xarelto®. to help keep me protected from a stroke. once-daily xarelto®, a latest-generation blood thinner significantly lowers the risk of stroke

brett baier, 6:00 p.m. eastern on fox news but coming up with tax revenue starting to come in is there any chance revenues will fill the massive and expanding budget deficit? does the treasury secretary still stand by his promise that the tax cuts will pay for themselves? i'm going to ask him in just a moment and in the meantime we just give you that breaking news that the state department says russia and syria sanitized meaning cleaned up that area of duma where 43 people were gassed to death in syria. we're looking at the markets right now, not taking a hit on that news, but we're looking at a dow jones industrial down about 116 points, s&p lower by 18 and the nasdac down 57 points , stocks are flashing red at this hour and kind of have been all day long. one alarming trend aside from all of the news breaking seems to be taking shape and that same trend is the one that sparked a vicious sell-off at the end of january. 10 year treasury yields jumping four basis points to 2.92% today touching a one month hi

or neutral and they proved it again by selecting this so yes an apology is owed but i agree with brett baierher next year let's put this dinner on hold andrea says the priorit ies, this is supposed to be a charitable event this comedian not setting a very good example for kids who got a scholarship so yes time to put it on hold. stuart: what are you going to do about senator john test a, democrat from montana standing for re-election in november. he engaged in character assassination of dr. ronny jackson, bringing out entirely unproven allegations which prevented him from taking the job as va secretary and now there's allegations have been proven false a lot of them at least. what are you going to do about tester? >> well, we're going to expose his double standard. he likes to play this fancy political foot work where her first campaign ad out says i've put into law bills that president signed so he's trying to be on team trump when he's back in his home state, but then in d.c. he's out there smearing someone with allegations and stuart it's a bad day when even adam schiff says you're ahead

baier bear. the president is expected any minute. bretth national security team and that u.s. military strikes will go forward in syria.

baier bear. the president is expected any minute. brett: that decision was made with national security team and that u.s. military strikes will go forward in syria. what they look like we don't know. the navy destroyer is in the eastern med. we believe that that destroyer will be part of the action tonight. it is armed with tomahawk cruise missiles. we saw 59 cruise missiles striking syria a year ago. and this decision has been made, sean and we are told that the president has made the announcement, and the vice-president rushed out of a dinner in limba, peru and he is waiting word from the president of the united states. >> sean: i will put up on the screen. you can see the heart wrenching images was men, women and children, like when president trump struck a year ago and you look at the images and it literally takes your breath away that it has happened again. again, here is the president. >> my fellow americans. a short time ago, i ordered the united states armed forces to launch precision strikes on targets associated with the chemical

baier will talk to him april 26. >> he will bring it up. >> he found negligence to extreme carelessness -- >> intent is not a requirement of the statute. >> brett will get to the bottom of it. coming up, french president emanuel macron, why he believes he and president trump share a special bond ahead of the official official state visit of the trump presidency and a madman shoots up a waffle house. what police are saying now. and were warning signs missed? more coming up. >> once he started shooting, i hit the ground and tried to keep an eye on him to make sure he wasn't going to come and try to shoot me. ♪ if you have moderate to severe plaque psoriasis, little things can be a big deal. that's why there's otezla. otezla is not an injection or a cream. it's a pill that treats psoriasis differently. with otezla, 75% clearer skin is achievable after just 4 months, ... with reduced redness, thickness, and scaliness of plaques. and the otezla prescribing information has no requirement for routine lab monitoring. don't use if you're allergic to otezla. otezla may cause severe diarrhea, nausea, or vomiting. tell your doctor if these occur. otezla is